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Pectoral Sandpiper

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Pectoral sandpipers are extreme long-distance migrants. The birds that migrate along the coast of Vancouver Island most likely breed in Siberia and migrate across the Bering Strait and down the Pacific coast. They winter in South American grasslands. Holden Creek, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, BC. Canada

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